3-43 Geraniaceae, geranium family

Marian C. Munro; Ruth E. Newell; Nicholas M. Hill

Authors

Marian C. Munro Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS
Ruth E. Newell E. C. Smith Herbarium, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Nicholas M. Hill Fernhill Institute, Kentville, Nova Scotia; Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Keywords:

Magnoliophyte, dicots, geranium family, Geranium, Erodium, stork`s-bill, crane`s-bill, herb-Robert. Geo-spatial, Canada, Nova Scotia

Abstract

Long-known for the prized ornamentals and house plants obtained from South African species. Nova Scotia hosts two genera and a half-dozen species. Most are herbs with lobed or compound leaves. Cauline leaves are opposite. Flower parts are in fives or multiples of fives. An outer whorl of sterile stamens may be present. Pistil has a single style, the stigmas distinct. Typically a beak covers the column of the style formed by an elongation of the carpels, and splitting at maturity, each carpel releasing a single seed. (schizocarp). Photographs taken by Andy Dean, Ross Hall, Martin Thomas, Sean Blaney and Alain Belliveau.

Author Biographies

Marian C. Munro, Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS

Curator of Botany (NSPM)

Ruth E. Newell, E. C. Smith Herbarium, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Curator of the E. C. Smith Herbarium (ACAD)

Nicholas M. Hill, Fernhill Institute, Kentville, Nova Scotia; Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Director; Adjunct Professor